Compassion and kindness go hand in hand. In times of struggle, compassion is often the driver for acts of kindness. And a simple act of kindness can breed and grow […]
#KindnessMatters
We talk a lot about kindness, especially now in times of difficulty, and Mental Health Awareness Week. I want to dig underneath what we mean by kindness – how does […]
A Story of Kindness
Today’s the first day of Mental Health Awareness week. This year’s theme is kindness – and all our blogs this week will focus around this. So we wanted to kick […]
Adapt, Improvise and Overcome! Your Workstation and Wellbeing Break Submissions
Today we are celebrating the creativity and ingenuity that you have demonstrated in your pictures of both your home workstations and what you are doing in your regular breaks to help your wellbeing – thank you to everyone who has contributed.
Working with a 2-Year-Old at Home … in Lockdown!
Hello! I’m Margaret Ayers, Director of Human Resources & Organisational Development. Like many of you I’m trying to continue my job whilst also having to care for a child at […]
Looking after You – Sleep
Whilst there is of course a focus in so many of our conversations and thinking at the moment about how we can work smart and be productive, there is the […]
Keep moving to keep going
Most of us are stuck inside and abiding to the rules of lockdown, to help minimise the spread of COVID-19 – but what impact does that have on our mental […]
Is your home office working well for you?
As we enter our eigth week of working from home, our daily Staff Development Blog Series this week will focus on the theme of “Working Well”. Today the Health & […]
Measuring Wellbeing
The University has just launched a pulse survey aimed at taking the wellbeing temperature of staff now we are a few weeks into lockdown. Measuring wellbeing is a tricky thing […]